Tech Law Bits

In the last episode of Tech Law Bits for now Martin speaks about his own table topic. Co-moderator of this round will be Jessica Lee, partner at the law firm of Loeb & Loeb in New York. Our topic at the round tables and in this talk will be data transfer to the U.S. Jessica briefly introduces the content of President Biden's Executive Order and explains why this really is novel. Martin touches upon the European Data Protection Board's opinion on the Draft Implementing Decision of the European Commission on the adequate protection of personal data under the EU-US Data...

Florian Müller from Switzerland and Martin Schirmbacher introduce the topic Florian will host together with Mathias Nordmann of SKW in Munich: NFT and crypto challenges.
Florian briefly explains what NFT actually are and we discuss whether the hype on NFT is already over and how the general idea will live on in certain business models. The crypto angle lies with decentralized autonomous organization (DAO's) and the question how the involvement of this technology influences diligence processes and transactions in general.

In this episode Martin Schirmbacher speaks with expert Prof. Eric Wagner from Stuttgart, Germany, on Product liability for automated and semi-automated systems. They start with clarifying that the automation of systems is actually much more than autonomous driving vehicles.
Eric than differentiates between contractual obligations and tort law. We briefly touch upon the changed European legislation on digital products and the obligation of sellers (and manufacturers) to provide updates to software. Eric then speaks about developments in product liability laws and how to deal with the risks involved in diligence processes before M&A transactions.

Philipp will moderate his round table together with Oliver Süme of Fieldfisher in Hamburg, Germany. And their topic is the up and coming Digital Services Act.
Martin and Philipp discuss how the new DSA affects technology M&A in the future and how DSA-compliance will be an important part of due diligences in the online services industry (and not only there). We also mention the unclear scope of the DSA and how clients deal with this.